<Sound Dev> [9] Review Request: 6729836 JavaSound treats large file sizes as negative and cannot read or skip

Sergey Bylokhov Sergey.Bylokhov at oracle.com
Thu Apr 7 18:52:03 UTC 2016


Hello,
Please review the fix for jdk9.

Long story short:
  I do not know why but we have two similar API to obtain the length of 
audio data:
- int precision: AudioFileFormat.getFrameLength()
- long precision: AudioInputStream.getFrameLength()

Problem description:

Usually we create AudioInputStream in two steps:
- Validate incoming data and create the AudioFileFormat.
- Based on AudioFileFormat we create AudioInputStream.
Since the AudioFileFormat stores the data as int, we cannot pass correct 
long value to AudioInputStream.

In different places we try to solve this issue differently:
- Sometimes we cast long to int and pass it to AudioFileFormat as is, 
and as a result we get the negative number of frames.
- Sometimes we cast to long and reports the negative value as 
unsupported, so we cannot handle the data up to the maximum value of 
unsigned int(but we should according the specification of some standards)

In the fix I create the new StandardFileFormat.java which will store 
byteLength and frameLength as longs, plus it will make the correct 
clipping before passing the value to the super class(AudioFileFormat).
And as a result in all our readers I can read the unsigned data as long 
and pass it to the new StandardFileFormat.

Two new tests were added, and the one test now cover all supported by 
JavaSound WAV formats.


The next step will be to update the writers, but I would like to get an 
opinions what we should do if the AudioFileStream is longer than the 
type support.
- Should our writers report that they support such streams, but save 
only the first part of audio data(ex: 0 - unsigned int)?
- Should our writers report that they support such streams, but throw an 
IOExceptio during the write?
- Should our writers report that they unsupport such streams? Note that 
according to the spec only AU file can support data of any length.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6729836
Webrev can be found at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/6729836/webrev.01

-- 
Best regards, Sergey.


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